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		p_l on Aug 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supporting half-precision floats is annoying Only after BWX landed - before that, you had to ensure all accesses were 4 or 8 bytes, and aligned on 4 byte boundary, then do appropriate bitmasking and shifting.

h2odragon on Aug 6, 2021 [–]

right. it was a noticeable pain point in early versions so they fixed good and hard for the last few.

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